Art Appreciated
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Vincent van Gogh — Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888.
Painting: Ink, watercolor on paper, 40.4 x 55.5 cm. State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
See also: The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt, 1894. Both these works exhibit the Japanese influence that enjoyed a major vogue in Paris toward the end of the 19th century.